What was the world like in 1966? The Beatles were on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the Celtics were NBA Champions and women were prohibited from running the Boston Marathon. Boston-native Bobbi Gibb says she was training at distances up to 40-miles at that time, but a letter responding to her entry application informed her, “Women are not physiologically able to run marathon distances." "Part of what I wanted to do is show that men and women can do things together."